Exam 2 Flashcards
Generalized neolithic period “ new stone age” due to environmental change and increase in population
Holocene
Genetic change in organism that requires human intervention for survival and/or reproduction
Domestication
Natural stone material that is from volcanic materials that is like glass
Obsidan
Group of people becoming settled in one place instead of nomadic
Sedentism
“Population Pressure” where areas are more scarce and there is population packing in one place
Binford
when a group of people cannot be nomadic and have to create settlements with an increase in population
Population packing
Chumash Culture
A tribe located in Santa Barbra and was sedentary without domestication
“Oasis hypothesis” where the drier period created a situation where animals and humans had one place for water and eventually became domesticated
V. Gordon Childe
In present day Illinois where there was first evidence of plant domestication
Koster
The area in the near east
Fertile Cresent
“Hilly Flanks” where domestication happen away from abundance and they were scrapping for sustained food
Braidwood
A period of plant and animal domestication and sedentism
Neolithic
A technique that leaves botanical remains
Floatation
A culture that existed in the Eastern Mediterranean area that had semi/full sedentism before agriculture
Natufian
“Feasting Social” where plants were domesticated for social and competition reasons in a society
Bender and Hayden
any agent that carries transmits pathogen into another
Disease Vector
a stem of a plant especially a grass
rachis
11,500 BC, had pithouses and with the increased drought the site was abandoned until reoccupation where there was above ground structures and population increase
Abu Hureya
A settlement that had Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic
‘Ain Ghazal
large single slab of stone isolated by itself
Menhir
A cave environment that was a data base for all meso-american plant domestication
Tehuacan Valley
Jordan Israel, found by Kathleen Kenyon next to a natural spring that had large defense walls and painted skulls and resource exchange like obsidan
Jericho
The ideology from Caralhoyuk where there was female shrines
Earth/Mother Goddess
In Oaxaca Valley found by Kent Flannery, where wild plants were found and earliest domesticated squash. eating smaller food “packets”
Guila Naquitz
